churn vs shake

churn

verb
  • To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake. 

  • To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion. 

  • To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits. 

  • To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream. 

  • To stop using a company's product or service. 

  • To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions. 

  • To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is. 

noun
  • A milk churn. 

  • The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers. 

  • Cyclic activity that achieves nothing. 

  • A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter. 

  • The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. 

  • Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company. 

shake

verb
  • To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion. 

  • To give a tremulous tone to; to trill. 

  • To dance. 

  • To lose, evade, or get rid of (something). 

  • To threaten to overthrow. 

  • To disturb emotionally; to shock. 

  • To be agitated; to lose firmness. 

  • To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly. 

  • To shake hands. 

  • To move from side to side. 

  • To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval. 

noun
  • A crack or split between the growth rings in wood. 

  • The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion. 

  • A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. 

  • Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana. 

  • An adulterant added to cocaine powder. 

  • A milkshake. 

  • A fissure in rock or earth. 

  • A shook of staves and headings. 

  • A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc. 

  • A twitch, a spasm, a tremor. 

  • Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.) 

  • One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. 

  • The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. 

  • A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float. 

  • A shock or disturbance. 

  • In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato. 

  • A thin shingle. 

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